The fight over right-to-discriminate laws just moved to Arizona. The legislature there passed a bill last week that would allow business owners and individuals to discriminate based on religious beliefs. The bill has been pushed by conservative Christians, but it would apply to all religious believers.

This proposed law makes the bill defeated in Kansas last week look progressive.

Unlike the Kansas bill — which applied only to marriage — the Arizona bill has no such limits. If signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer, it would result in nothing less than chaos.

Targets other minorities

According to the ACLU’s advocacy and policy counsel Eunice Rho, if this is implemented, it will be unprecedented. Says Rho, “The people who are supporting this law are very open about their intentions to use it against gay people. But it (additionally) undermines all sorts of civil rights laws in the state. The potential for discrimination is very broad.”

Say the only pharmacy in town is owned by a conservative Muslim. He believes that women should be covered. A mother comes in to get antibiotics for her sick child. He refuses service unless she covers herself. Will the religious right defend this?

Rho points out that the bill gives employees the right to discriminate even if the owner of the business doesn’t share their views. If you own a bakery that does business for gay weddings and one of your employees becomes a born-again Christian and refuses to bake cakes, what do you do?

If you fire her, she likely can sue you for wrongful termination. If you keep her, you have an employee who is refusing to do the work for which she was hired and possibly alienating your customers.

What if an Army sergeant in full regalia is driving through a small town and his car breaks down and it’s too late to find a mechanic? There are two hotels in the town; both are owned by pacifist Christians. Do the backers of this bill really believe it should be legal for him to be refused a room and forced to sleep in his car?

Interracial marriage?

Or: A couple, white male and black female, enter a florist to order arrangements for their wedding. The owner — a Bob Jones University graduate circa 1985, when the college still officially banned interracial dating — feels that he cannot contribute to something he believes is morally wrong (mixed-race marriage) on biblical grounds.

Should he be allowed to refuse service even if it violates a federal anti-discrimination statute?

Moreover, one wonders how Christians will feel when this law is used against them. There are Christians who think (correctly) that judging gay people is a sin. What’s to say that a Christian restaurant owner won’t tell the Christian baker who refuses service to gays to leave his establishment?

Anti-Christian backfire

What if a town dominated by Mainline Protestants decides they don’t want to serve evangelical Christians because they don’t want to be seen as affirming people who they think are distorting the teachings of the Bible and dishonoring God? An evangelical pastor and his family show up at a hotel and are turned away. How is this right?

In a religiously pluralistic society, the possibilities for discrimination based on sincerely held religious beliefs are endless.

Pray that Gov. Brewer vetoes this abomination of a bill.

Kirsten Powers writes weekly for USA TODAY and is a Fox News political analyst.